Hi,
Here is a vote on the first release candidate for
Apache Jena version 6.2.0
==== Release Vote
This vote will be open until at least
Friday, 31st July 2026 at 06:00 UTC
Please vote to approve this release:
[ ] +1 Approve the release
[ ] 0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Don't release, because ...
Everyone, not just committers, is invited to test and vote.
Please download and test the proposed release. See the checklist below.
Staging repository:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejena-1073
Proposed dist/ area:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/jena/
Keys:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jena/dist/KEYS
Git commit (browser URL):
https://github.com/apache/jena/commit/d0676a2c40
Git Commit Hash:
d0676a2c402ead68a133596f4ac5977be64dd251
Git Commit Tag:
jena-6.2.0
If you expect to check the release but the time limit does not work
for you, please email to let us know within the schedule above.
==== In this release
Issues in this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-6.2.0-issues
==== Checking:
+ are the GPG signatures fine?
+ are the checksums correct?
+ is there a source archive?
+ can the source archive be built?
(NB This requires a "mvn install" first time)
+ is there a correct LICENSE and NOTICE file in each artifact
(both source and binary artifacts)?
+ does the NOTICE file contain all necessary attributions?
+ have any licenses of dependencies changed due to upgrades?
if so have LICENSE and NOTICE been upgraded appropriately?
+ does the tag/commit in the SCM contain reproducible sources?
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==== Current draft [ANN]
The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 6.2.0
All issues for this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-6.2.0-issues
== Jena 6.2.0
Working Group - RDF and SPARQL:
Syntax (Turtle etc, SPARQL etc) are UTF-8 documents. UTF-8 does not
allow surrogate pairs. The RDF Working Group has decided not to allow
surrogate pairs via Unicode escapes.
In GeoSPARQL:
* upgrade SIS upgrade 1.4 -> 1.6
* support non-Euclidean geometries
In Fuseki:
* Memory leak fix related to long-running servers using Apache Shiro
In TDB:
* Robustness fix for the database after system level error
This affects both TDB2 and TDB1.
== Contributions
From @ThomasThelen:
SIS upgrade 1.4 -> 1.6
https://sis.apache.org/release-notes/1.5.html
https://sis.apache.org/release-notes/1.6.html
including bug fix for non-euclidean geometries
GeoSPARQL and UI
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4021
UI : Use a dashed 'primary' color instead of 'warning' during file
Fuseki UI : Use a dashed 'primary' color instead of 'warning' during file
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4021
Fuseki UI : Show parser error from fuseki when uploading files:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4052
Reasoner fix:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4022
Support non-Euclidean geometry:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4016
Support more locales in the Fuseki docker image
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4054
Github actions fix:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4086
From @m3l0n-sq:
* Robustness fix for the database after a system level error
(e.g. OOME elsewhere in the JVM)
https://github.com/apache/jena/issues/4043
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull4051
This affects both TDB2 and TDB1.
@jitsedesmet Jitse De Smet
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/4095
"Fix invalid json in Lateral test results2
== Obtaining Apache Jena 6.2.0
* Via repo1.maven.org
The main jars and their dependencies can used with:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId>
<type>pom</type>
<version>6.2.0</version>
</dependency>
Full details of all maven artifacts are described at:
http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html
* As binary downloads
Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of
libraries. For details of a global mirror copy of Jena binaries please see:
https://jena.apache.org/download/
* Source code for the release
The signed source code of this release is available at:
https://downloads.apache.org/jena/source/
and the signed source code for all Apache Jena releases is
available at: https://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/
== Contributing
If you would like to help out, a good place to look is the list of
unresolved github issues:
https://github.com/apache/jena/issues
or review pull requests at
https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls
or drop into the dev@ list.
We use github pull requests and other ways for accepting code:
https://github.com/apache/jena/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
